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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Wit and Wisdom of Grover Norquist
I was reflecting on his famous lust for a bathtub murder. I wanted to post it as a reminder of what we're up against, since the majority of Congress has signed on in blood with this man's philosophy. In googling up that quote, I found some others attributed to him as well. I also found that he has at least two variants on the bathtub thing.
The thread title is sarcastic irony.
Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
Obsessions turn people off.
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
The statists want to control the economy.
We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.
Isn't he a swell guy?
I wonder if he makes bubbles when he is in his own bathtub.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Grover Norquist (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Aug 2012
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There is no question in my mind that the answer to BOTH your questions is a . . . . .
Stinky The Clown
Aug 2012
#4
magnifisense
(285 posts)1. "I wonder if he makes bubbles when he is in his own bathtub."
Those are Grover's thought bubbles, the kind you see in comic strips.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)2. His is a sick mind.
No heart to speak of, either.
Saddest of all is to sell one's soul for a few dollars.
"Bipartisanship is another name for date rape." -- Grover Norquist
Hydra
(14,459 posts)3. There's always the great question:
1. Does he believe his own BS?
or
2. Is he parroting someone else's opinions for pay?
Stinky The Clown
(67,799 posts)4. There is no question in my mind that the answer to BOTH your questions is a . . . . .
. . . . . a resounding YES.